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Making Legal History : Essays in Honor of William E. Nelson /

One of the academy's leading legal historians, William E. Nelson is the Edward Weinfeld Professor of Law at New York University School of Law. For more than four decades, Nelson has produced some of the most original and creative work on American constitutional and legal history. His prize-winn...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Barringer Gordon, Sarah (Contribuidor), Bernstein, R. B. (Editor ), Blumenthal, Susanna L. (Contribuidor), Brown-Nagin, Tomiko (Contribuidor), Cushman, Barry (Contribuidor), Dayton, Cornelia H. (Contribuidor), Hamilton, Daniel W. (Contribuidor), Horwitz, Morton J. (Contribuidor), Hulsebosch, Daniel J. (Editor ), Mackey, Thomas C. (Contribuidor), Salinger, Sharon V. (Contribuidor), Schiller, Reuel (Contribuidor), Wertheimer, John (Contribuidor), Witt, John Fabian (Contribuidor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : New York University Press, [2013]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Foreword
  • I. Civil Wars and Legal Rights
  • 1. The Landscape of Faith
  • 2. "It cant be cald stealin'"
  • 3. Debating the Fourteenth Amendment
  • II. Law and Social Regulation
  • 4. Was the Warning of Strangers Unique to Colonial New England?
  • 5. Ambiguities of Free Labor Revisited
  • 6. The Long, Broad, and Deep Civil Rights Movement
  • 7. Counting as a Tool of Legal History
  • III. Courts, Judges, and Litigators
  • 8. A Mania for Accumulation
  • 9. The Political Economy of Pain
  • 10. An Unexpected Antagonist
  • Bibliography of the Scholarship of William E. Nelson, 1963-2012
  • Acknowledgments
  • Contributors
  • Index